What do You think about Santa Fe Rules (2001)?
Ed Eagle meets Barbara Kennerly. Wolf Willet wakes up and flies himself to LA despite the fact that there are three murdered bodies in his guest room. Wolf makes it to the Grand Canyon before his plane breaks down and he spends two days watching news coverage of his own murder. He correctly notes that he has enough time to finish a new movie before anyone discovers that he is not dead. He contacts Ed Eagle to serve as his lawyer, who manages the crisis and shelters his client from jail and worse. Investigating Wolf's ex Julia, he flies to a NY state prison to interview her sister Barbara, which begins a 2000 mile sniff trail ending in heavy breathing for the both of them. Fortunately, the DA's office is much in the dark and has few clues, as Ed stays on leg up on them in uncovering the ugly secrets of Julia's past and its deadly ties to this triple murder. Doubting every one around him, Ed brings the drama to a head and Julia appears from the dead, having killed her sister Leah instead. Ed's doubts are finally excised when Barbara kills her sister Julia in the final showdown.
—Will
Stuart Woods has been a hit or miss author for me, although some of his earlier books were my favorites. My husband and I listened to Santa Fe Rules (1992) on a short trip, and it made the drive fly by.In this story movie producer Wolf Willett is shocked beyond belief when he finds himself stranded in the Grand Canyon, and reads about his own death, having been reported in a major newspaper. The article states that he was a victim in a triple homicide during a three-some with his wife and a friend, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. But who is the deceased that was believed to be Wolf, and why can't Wolf remember anything about the night in question?When Wolf is arrested, and then yet another murder occurs, Wolf hires a top level criminal attorney, Ed Eagle, to help clear his name. Hopefully, this will happen before Wolf ends up dead for real.The reader of this audio book was great, and the story was fun to listen to with lots of twists and turns. Unfortunately, both of us felt that the loose ends were tied up too quickly, and the ending seemed contrived.
—Diane
